Bauer Communications: 39 books

At 33, Alexandra “Lexie” Royce is beautiful, smart, newly divorced, and very, very rich.  She and her half-brother, Rolland, are the owners of Summit City Metals and Scrapyard, a fourth-generation family business which has been losing steam ever since the sudden death of their father four...

Hank woke up at his friend’s home, dazed and only slightly confused from a night out celebrating the first day of summer. But the innocence of childhood is lost when he returns home. The television is on. A clock counting down with 50 minutes left. No one knows what it means.

Jilly Woodcock’s career selling fine art at a posh gallery is going gangbusters. She doesn’t have a boyfriend but she does go on lots of dates. And as president of the I-Chicks Book and Shoe Club, her social life is full. So what’s the problem?  She needs a raise to buy more designer shoes...

At 28, Lily Anderson, a pretty, self-assured career woman living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is facing problems in the law firm where she’s the manager. She’s also sick of living so far from her only sister. She wants a better work environment, warmer weather, and marriage before she turns...

Three centuries of war have come to an end. Colonel James Abbott begins his journey back home to “normalcy,” as best he can with a family he barely knows. But whatever sense of peace that may be there is a lie. Someone or something from his past begins targeting his family. The war never really ended. Not for James.

Juliana Bristow, born and turned in the 1600s, is a four-hundred year old vampire with a serious problem – she has fallen deeply in love with the enemy, a charming, smooth talking werewolf. Luc is the desire of her heart, but is love enough? If she follows her heart she must turn her back on her...

When the newly married Lexie Royce and Steve Wright (the principals in Murder for Old Times’ Sake) learn that Antoinette “Tawny” Delamarter died of poison at Scuttlebutt’s, a gentlemen’s club in Fort Wayne, they merely note it in passing.  After all, Tawny -- the skank of the Carroll...

At 36, Poppy Beaudry McBride is the beleaguered wife of a prominent Florida politician. In the 1989 Miss South Carolina contest, she finished first runner-up to Molly Applegate Standardt, now an investigative journalist for The Naples Daily News. Poppy and her husband, U.S Rep. Ferrin McBride (R),...

The much-married Madeleine Harrod is a beautiful and talented woman obsessed with death. She sees things no one else sees. As one of the best forensic artists in the country, she visualizes the face of an unidentified skull before anyone else can. She owns Appledorn Exploratorium, which makes spooky...

Sweet Deceit is a contemporary romance, Winner of the American Author Contest.     Isabella Tafani, an independent literary agent, is desperate to find the next bestseller when a mysterious Ebola doctor named Phillip Stewart submits his West African diary to her.  It has...

“Life is not the sport for spectators. Even they are afflicted. I just want to see where people run to when rules and religion will no longer harbor them.” ‘You Can See’ is one of those books that is hauntingly beautiful, with gorgeously described details and an evolving plot that you can’t tear your eyes away.